Quotes About Mindset

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there"—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you're suffering in paradise.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.

Pensé: el mundo en el que uno se despierta es otro que el mundo en el que uno se durmió. Basta con abrir los ojos.

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

The self-help movement that began in the latter half of the twentieth century suffers particularly from this flaw, for the personal and interpersonal skills it seeks to cultivate are almost always designed to get us more of what we think we want, rather than to bring about a change of heart.

You will never achieve or succeed in life higher than your attitude.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence.

Acolo unde predomin? materialismul raÅ£ionalist statele se transform? mai puÅ£in în niÅŸte închisori, cât în niÅŸte ospicii.

what is the fate of great nations but a summation of the psychic changes in individuals?

PART EIGHT —— DESERT SOLITAIRE The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

So like Miriam to look for the easy way.

Nauczy?am si?, ?e albo akceptujemy to, co daje nam ?ycie, albo ga?niemy.

Distress, however much you tried to compartmentalize it, put you in an illogical frame of mind.

Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.

If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset ("what can the world offer me?") and instead adopt the craftsman mindset ("what can I offer the world?").

As the author Tim Ferriss once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives.

here's the core argument of Rule #2: You shouldn't just envy the craftsman mindset, you should emulate it. In other words, I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can't ignore you. That is, regardless of what you do for a living, approach your work like a true performer. This